Once upon a time, Daisy decided to try making firearms and one of their ideas was a .22 with caseless ammo
As I recall, to cock it you worked a lever to compress a spring(like a pellet gun); when you fired the spring drove a piston that forced the air through a tiny aperture to compress and heat it, and that ignited the propellant.
It never caught on. Neat idea, but the propellant could break loose from the bullet, and it could be pretty vulnerable to moisture. As I recall this was years before H&K made a real effort to make a working, reliable caseless bullet(bunch of people still are). Now, it's a curiosity, an idea tried that just didn't work out.
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I have one that I bought off the shelf 40 years ago, along with 1000 rounds of ammo. There's a fair number of them around, not really all that valuable, but still an interesting item to have in the collection.
I remember that system and I also remember seeing an ad some years later were both the rifle and the ammunition were being let go for almost a give away price.
This is a reworking of the Volcanic Firearms rocket ball. My recollection is Daisy dropped the product after the ATF declared it a firearm so that they could avoid the government boot.
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